System and method for reconciling billing mismatch

1. A method of reconciling prices of a buyer and seller of telecommunications services, the method comprising:

retrieving a first breakout of prices associated with selling telecommunications services;

retrieving a second breakout of prices associated with selling said telecommunications services;

obtaining estimated telecommunication traffic indicative of said telecommunications services to be bought or sold; and

using said estimated traffic in a mathematical algorithm to convert said first and second breakouts to a common breakout.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising converting prices between a first and second currency.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising calculating a weighted average of the price of telecommunications services to or from various codes to cause said first breakout to conform to said second breakout.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein said weighted average is calculated based upon past traffic to different codes.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein said weighted average is calculated based upon future traffic estimates to different codes.

6. A system for completing Internet telephone calls comprising

a computer for allowing originating entities to buy time from terminating entities, and

software that, when executed, converts between a code breakout of prices utilized by the originating entity and a breakout utilized by the terminating entity,

wherein at least one of the originating or terminating entities is associated with a gateway for routing telephone calls onto or off of the Internet; and

wherein a weighted average is performed utilizing estimated traffic patterns.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein said software, when executed, calculates a weighted average of a cost of calls routed to various code extensions.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein the software retrieves from a database costs associated with lower level codes within a breakdown identified by a buyer.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein each lower level code is a different single digit in a predetermined location within a telephone number.

10. The system of claim 6 wherein the software retrieves from a database costs associated with lower level codes within a breakdown identified by a seller.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein each lower level code is a different single digit in a predetermined location within a telephone number.

12. A method of reconciling prices of a buyer and seller of telecommunications services, the method comprising:

receiving a first breakout of prices associated with selling telecommunications services;

retrieving from a database data relating to said prices;

converting said first breakout to a second breakout, said second breakout associated with buying telecommunications services; and

consummating a transaction between a buyer and a seller utilizing said second breakout, wherein said step of convening includes forming a weighted average of prices in said first or second breakout based upon traffic estimates.

13. The method according to claim 12 comprising the further step of converting said second breakout to a currency usable by said buyer or seller.

14. The method according to claim 12 comprising the further step of convening said second breakout to a format usable by said buyer or seller.

15. The method according to claim 14 comprising a sender transmitting to a recipient a format required by said sender, recipient applying said required format to data to be transmitted to said sender, and transmitting said data to said sender in said required format.

16. The method according to claim 15 wherein said sender is said buyer.

17. The method according to claim 15 wherein said sender is said seller.